In a rare personal attack on the Senate floor, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy accused Sen. Rick Santorum on Wednesday of being self-righteous and insensitive for a column he wrote three years ago linking Boston’s liberalism to the sex abuse scandal in its Catholic diocese.
“Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture,” Santorum wrote. “When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.”
In a speech, Kennedy, D-Mass., called for Santorum to retract his remarks and apologize to the people of Boston and Massachusetts and the nation.
“The people of Boston are to blame for the clergy sexual abuse? That is an irresponsible, insensitive and inexcusable thing to say,” said Kennedy.
Robert Traynham, a spokesman for Santorum, said his boss recognizes that the church abuse scandal was not just in Boston, but all over the country.
Throughout the United States, sexual abuse by priests has cost the Catholic Church more than $1 billion. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has said that its records show 44 priests have been “credibly” accused of molesting minors since the 1950s.
Kennedy rips Santorum for abuse remarks - politics - msnbc.com
"Father Santorum" strikes again Telling us that the molestation of young boys--which is across this country by "trusted figures" of the Catholic church -- was all the state of Mass, specifically Boston's FAULT--. Darn them for creating Priest's that were pedifiles.
Now you people have got to be joking right--Santorum is leading in polling data--against SANE candidates. Do some of you have any smidgen of a clue as to what the Obama reelection campaign committee is going to do with "Father Santorum?"---- They are NOT going to hold any punches regarding his recent statement that States have the right to BAN birth control contraceptives--they are not going to let up on this social freak nut case--and he is going to get tared and feathered & run out of this country by the Obama reelection campaign.
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